
W&L’s Staniar Gallery presents ‘Reconciliation’ by Leigh Ann Beavers
Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery presents “Reconciliation,” a show by Leigh Ann Beavers, an art professor at W&L.

Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery presents “Reconciliation,” a show by Leigh Ann Beavers, an art professor at W&L.

A lawsuit filed Friday seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s elimination of safeguards that have protected national forests from unneeded, ill-conceived and destructive logging, road building, and utility right-of-way projects.

Six habitat projects spanning more than 180 acres will be funded thanks to the Department of Wildlife Resources Restore the Wild initiative.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated in 2018 that 34.2 percent of the world’s fish stocks were overfished.

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces “The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News” to inform legislators and the public.

One of the emerging questions about the coronavirus that scientists are working to understand is why developing countries are showing markedly lower rates of mortality in COVID-19 cases than expected.

The House voted Wednesday to pass H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, broad transportation and infrastructure legislation.

The U.S. Senate voted 80-17 Monday to take up the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill championed by Sen. Mark Warner that would address the $12 billion maintenance backlog at National Park Sites across the country.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has concluded the 2019-2020 chronic wasting disease surveillance efforts in Virginia’s white-tailed deer population.

When you think of the Chesapeake Bay, an iceberg probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
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